256 union members are currently the subject of legal proceedings for facts that happened within the framework of a general strike. They incur heavy fines or prison sentences. The CCOO and UGT unions are calling for mobilization across the country on July 9. They denounce a premeditated legal offensive against the right to strike and union freedom, aimed at deterring workers from exercising their right to mobilize by presenting the right to strike as a delinquent activity.
“They won’t hush us up.” This is the unions’ watchword, calling for a national day of mobilization on July 9 to protest against the “judicial persecution” of their activists, currently leading to a restriction of the right to strike. Indeed, there have been more and more proceedings against union members, linked with their participation in information lines during the general strike of March 29, 2012 and the incidents that took place that day. Indeed, regardless of the region, the...
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